diff --git a/apps/api/src/__tests__/e2e_withAuth/index.test.ts b/apps/api/src/__tests__/e2e_withAuth/index.test.ts
index b0642cf..4ac57e6 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/__tests__/e2e_withAuth/index.test.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/__tests__/e2e_withAuth/index.test.ts
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ describe("E2E Tests for API Routes", () => {
       );
       expect(urls.length).toBeGreaterThan(1);
 
-      // Check if all URLs have a maximum depth of 1
+      // Check if all URLs have an absolute maximum depth of 3 after the base URL depth was 2 and the maxDepth was 1
       urls.forEach((url: string) => {
         const depth = new URL(url).pathname.split("/").filter(Boolean).length;
         expect(depth).toBeLessThanOrEqual(3);
diff --git a/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/index.ts b/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/index.ts
index e8ce813..67d73d4 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/index.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/index.ts
@@ -163,11 +163,10 @@ export class WebScraperDataProvider {
     inProgress?: (progress: Progress) => void
   ): Promise<Document[]> {
 
-    const baseURLDepth = new URL(this.urls[0]).pathname.split('/').length - 2;
+    const pathSplits = new URL(this.urls[0]).pathname.split('/');
+    const baseURLDepth = pathSplits.length - (pathSplits[0].length === 0 && pathSplits[pathSplits.length - 1].length === 0 ? 1 : 0);
     const adjustedMaxDepth = this.maxCrawledDepth + baseURLDepth;
 
-    
-
 
     const crawler = new WebCrawler({
       initialUrl: this.urls[0],